By Lee Hollahan

An entire designer exhibits ladies who make their very own clothing the right way to increase on store-bought stitching styles by way of adjusting the garments item's size and different info to mirror own style and create a customized healthy. The book's commencing chapters current an illustrated advisor to the instruments, apparatus, and materials wanted for making clothing, whereas additionally serving as a miniature textbook to educate uncomplicated stitching strategies. Chapters that persist with provide designated guideline in adapting and changing a store-bought trend to fit person tastes. changes contain including flare, and editing the shapes of bodices, arm holes, neck strains, sleeves, and skirts. The book's concluding chapters train on designing one's personal styles from scratch. writer Lee Hollahan demonstrates to her readers that after they know the way to evolve a store-bought development, they're good on their technique to customized designing their very own cloth wardrobe. greater than 500 instructive illustrations.

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The same stripe or bar runs through the CF and CB, matching at the shoulder seam. The stripe on the sleeve head will match the stripe on the bodice armhole front and back. It is always safer to cut plaids in a single layer, rather than with the fabric folded, so that you can see both sides to measure and match the plaid exactly. Tartan Even plaid Uneven plaid An even plaid makes laying out pattern pieces easy. You still have to consider matching horizontal and vertical lines, but pattern pieces can be turned to minimize fabric wastage.

If you spread your folded fabric out on a table, turn down one corner, and the squares match, then the plaid is even. An uneven plaid will take more planning when aligning the pattern pieces on the fabric and will require extra material for a layout similar to one-way fabrics. Cutting plaid When cutting a plaid, as with stripes, you must consider how the plaid will match when the seams meet. You may want the plaid to meet in horizontal stripes or perhaps to chevron for a dramatic effect. Think about where you want the bars to be placed on the body.

P r e p a r i n g a c o m m e r c i a l p a t t e r n What is ease and why do we need it? ” Wearing ease in a garment is essential for movement. If the pattern didn’t include wearing ease, you would not be able to sit, walk, or move when wearing it because the pattern would fit your body measurements exactly. On page 32 is a design ease allowance chart. , close-fitting, loose-fitting, and so on. Consider the design style itself when checking the measurements and “fit“ of your garment. The garment may contain styles that don’t correspond to the points from which the body measurements have been taken.

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